Cc: vice.president@whitehouse.gov, The cypherpunks list has been discussing ITAR again. :-)

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If it is illegal (by our governments standards...) to export programs like PGP, etc., and you can send the whole source code in a message because that is also considered illegal, then could you send the code, broken up into many pieces, and send THAT in Email, would that be illegal?

Exporting components of military hardware, including cryptosystems, is also specifically banned by ITAR. How big a piece is enough to get you prosecuted is a question for the nastiest of the N prosecutors out there, and whether you can be convicted is a question for the best of the 12 jurors you'll have.... Vince Cate's arms exporter page lets you export a highly-useful fully working cryptosystem in three lines with one mouse click (developed by Adam Back and an international cast of dozens.) Adam Back's export-three-lines-of-PGP-at-once is a more blatant test of this; go see his web pages. Here's my two bits worth - the following bits are components of PGP, Netscape 3.0b5, and also of RSAREF. 0 1 # Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart +1-415-442-2215 stewarts@ix.netcom.com # http://www.idiom.com/~wcs # Confuse Authority!